Rightwingprof has the data up. Looks pretty interesting. Ahab says it’s because of the election. Things were looking bleak for us in 1993. I’m sure a lot of those gun purchases were intended to be buried in back yards in the period where politicians talking to Mr. and Mrs. America about turning them all in.
Strangely enough, I haven’t been in a black rifle buying mood. I really should consider it, because the economy isn’t looking too good, and by the time the threat is really upon us, I might not have the money. Of course, that’s gambling that they won’t make us turn them in this time. The real danger of an Obama presidency is that he is naive about this issue, and about life in the country outside of Chicago. Hillary has felt the sting of the gun vote before. Obama has not. To some degree, that makes Obama the bigger threat to the second amendment.